The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1887-11-19
News of the Week.

Four hundred lives were lost by the burn
ing of the steamer Wahyeun in the Canton
river, China.
A curiosity in Durham, N. c., is hen
with hornlike growth protruding from each
side of its head
Mrs. Elizabeth Kuehn, of Manchester
borough, York county, Pa, was one hundred
years old last Saturday.
D. E. Shroader and J. F. Smith, the two
lawyers who had fight in the courtroom at
Reading, Penna., were on Saturday fined $50
each for contempt of court.
Biphtheria is reported so bad in Clearfeld,
Pa, that the public schools have been closed.
The low stage of water in Clarified Greek is
blamed as the cause of the epidemic.
A drunken man named Mclean. resisting
arrest at an Indian village near Kamloops,
British Columbia, on Saturday, shot and
killed four men. He was then killed by a
party of Indians.
The barn of Winfield Todd, in Chester
county, Penna., was burned on Friday night
of last week, with the contents, including
eight horses and mules, fourteen cows, ten
calves and other live stock.
The town of Hayesville, twelve miles from
Wichita, Kansas, was almost entirely des-
troyed by ire on Sunday night 1t is said
that thieves started the fire and then robbed
the general store of DR.. Jones.
Great foods prevailed in Hon Nan river
China, last week. While 5000 men were re-
pairing the bank at one point, they were
overwhelmed by the food, and 1000 were
drowned.
A fire in St. Peter, Minnesota, on Saturday
night, destroyed thirty buildings, including
two hotels. the First National Bank, the
American Express Office, several large stores,
besides restaurants, saloons, millinery shops
and barns.
At the penitentiary in Joliet, Illinois, on
Monday, the Anarchists, Schwab and Fiel-
den, were put to work. Schwab was sent to
the kitchen, where his work will be to help
peel potatoes and prepare the convicts' food.
Fielder was assigned to the stone depart
ment.
Destructive prairie fires have been raging
in the vicinity of Mandan, Dakota. Wagons,
buildings and hundreds of tons of hay have
been consumed and a number of horses have
persisted. The soldiers and Indians at Stand
ing Rock agency had a hard fight to save the
buildings
The shoe manufacturers of the United
States met on Monday in New York to organ
ize an association for mutual protection
against the demands of their employees, in
view of the strikes at Rochester. Cincinnati
and other places James A. Bemster, of
Newark, was elected President.
|. As result of the water famine in the
Miami Valley, Ohio, an epidemic of fever
and diphtheria is reported in all the villages
and farming districts throughout the valley.
At Lewisburg, where the disease is worst,
the schools are closed, and the children for
hidden to go upon the street.
Mr.. Charles Clendenin, postmaster at Car
Isle Springs Pa, is under arrest for reporting
more stamps cancelled than were really can
celled. Mr.. C's. bondsmen have placed the
office in charge of H. C. Babble. To obtain
the commission on the cancelled stamps
evidently was the motive for making the false
return.
On Friday September 10th, the vault of the
Union National Bank of Duluth was robbed
of several packages of money, containing in
all S24, 5000. young clerk of the bank
named Bckell, who had resigned, was arrest
ed in Chicago last week by Pinkerton's
detective, and in his valise was found all the
money, except $780, He made full con-
fession of the theft.
Trouble which had existed at the coal
mines at Pocahontas, Virginia, between col
ored and Hungarian miners, for about
week, eliminated on Saturday night in a
riot. The colored men drove out the Hun
garans. and about forty or fifty shots were
fired, but no one was wounded. Quiet was
restored by the arrival of three companies of
militia from Lynchburg.
Commissioner Sparks, of the General Land
Office, on Tuesday rendered his resignation to
President Cleveland. Secretary Lamar, of
the Interior, to whose department the Land
Office belongs, regarded Commissioner Sparks
as exceeding his authority, and wrote to the
President that either he or the Commission
err would have TO go. The Commissioner
thereupon rendered his resignation.
A telegram from Racine, Wisconsin, says
Mrs. Margaret Engel, living in that city,
claims to have been the lawful wife of Engel,
the Anarchist, executed in Chicago last week.
She says they were married in Germany
number of years ago, and went to Racine
twelve years since, where, she alleges her
husband deserted her. She says she heard
subsequently that Engel had married again
and was living in Chicago.
About o'clock Monday morning the barn
of Charles Shaner, on the Emmitsburg road,
half mile beyond Greenmount. Adams conn
ty, Pa, was discovered to be on fire, which
resulted in the destruction of the entire build
ing, with contents, hay, fodder and lot of
oats no stock injured. He has an insur-
! ance of about $500 in Adams County Com
pany, but portion on wheat not consumed.
Mr.. Shaner will rebuild at once.
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